Resources

What a great time to study Chinese and learn about China! There have never been so many resources for the student of Chinese language and culture. On this page you will find links to a number of useful sites.

The Chairman's Bao is a fantastic new Chinese language learning site. You can read fun and fascinating articles at a reading level that you choose, hear it read by a native speaker, save vocabulary, and more!

Lang-8 is a global language learning community. Post your writings in Chinese and native speakers will help you correct them. You can help others with English too!

Having trouble with your Chinese homework, or just have a question about vocabulary or usage? Head over to HiNative and have your questions answered, usually within minutes.

If you are a student of Chinese, you should definitely check out Pleco, the tool of choice for students of Chinese everywhere. The free version is great, the modestly-priced paid version even better. Available for either iOS or Android.

One might say that memorization is 90% of foreign language learning. This sophisticated flashcard program may help greatly with that process! There are plenty of ready-to-go collections for Chinese to download, and it's also extremely easy to make your own, especially if you download the special Chinese plugin 'pinyin toolkit'. It's a good idea to first watch the intro video on the home page.

Anyone using the Zhongwen series textbooks should check out their site. It is filled with activities, exercises, and games.

Yellow Bridge has online flashcards, videos, and other resources for Integrated Chinese and other popular textbooks.

zhongwen.com Is an online etymological dictionary and more. Look up any character by radical, copy and paste, or pinyin, and get word origin information, see how it’s related to other characters, and more.

Margie Chan’s China Links at Ohio State University maintains a huge list of online learning resources for Chinese language and culture. Check this one out!

This dictionary incorporates handwriting recognition- handy when you encounter a character that you have no idea how to pronounce, and don't want to go through the trouble of looking up by radical and stroke count (yuk!).

Kuaile Hanyuis an entertaining TV show aimed at foreigners learning Chinese. Try out an episode and ramp up your Chinese!.

Xi Yangyangis a popular Chinese cartoon, which also happens to have lots of useful Chinese. Watch and find out why many Chinese women say 'Hui Tailang' (Grey Wolf) is the 'ideal husband'.

Kuaile Xue Hanyuis a Chinese language show co-hosted by a young American guy who speaks excellent Chinese. Check it our for inspiration!